RecyclingCenters.org Blog http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog Recycling Information, News and Commentary Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en EPA adds US Magnesium to Superfund site list http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/epa-adds-us-magnesium-to-superfund-site-list/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/epa-adds-us-magnesium-to-superfund-site-list/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:49:54 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/epa-adds-us-magnesium-to-superfund-site-list/ AP - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the U.S. Magnesium site near Utah’s Great Salt Lake to the federal Superfund list.

]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/epa-adds-us-magnesium-to-superfund-site-list/feed/ Africans boycott meetings at UN climate talks http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/africans-boycott-meetings-at-un-climate-talks/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/africans-boycott-meetings-at-un-climate-talks/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:38:19 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/africans-boycott-meetings-at-un-climate-talks/ Greenpeace climbers hang a big banner reads 'World Leaders Make Climate Call' at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain,on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Barcelona is host the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit.(AP Photo/David Ramos)AP - African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks Tuesday, saying that industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/africans-boycott-meetings-at-un-climate-talks/feed/ Over 17,000 species threatened by extinction http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-17000-species-threatened-by-extinction/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-17000-species-threatened-by-extinction/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:38:02 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-17000-species-threatened-by-extinction/ FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, shows a Varanus mabitang. The monitor lizard is one of the species that could soon disappear in the wild, IUCN said Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Switzerland-based IUCN surveyed a total of 47,677 animals and plants for this year's 'Red List' of endangered species and determined that 17,291 of them are threatened with extinction. (AP Photo/IUCN, Tim Laman)AP - A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-17000-species-threatened-by-extinction/feed/ Archer Daniels Midland profit falls on weak demand http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/archer-daniels-midland-profit-falls-on-weak-demand/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/archer-daniels-midland-profit-falls-on-weak-demand/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:27:47 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/archer-daniels-midland-profit-falls-on-weak-demand/ In this July 2, 2009 file photo, the ADM logo is seen on a tanker truck at the Archer Daniels Midland Company plant in Decatur, Ill. Archer Daniels Midland said Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, its first-quarter profit tumbled 53 percent as the global recession dragged down demand for crops and ethanol.(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file)AP - Archer Daniels Midland Co. said Tuesday that its first-quarter profit tumbled 53 percent as the global recession dragged down demand for crops and ethanol, but demand is improving in some key markets.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/archer-daniels-midland-profit-falls-on-weak-demand/feed/ Merkel addressing climate change with US lawmakers http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-addressing-climate-change-with-us-lawmakers/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-addressing-climate-change-with-us-lawmakers/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:48:31 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-addressing-climate-change-with-us-lawmakers/ AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was making the case Tuesday for a global deal on climate change to a skeptical audience: members of Congress.

]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-addressing-climate-change-with-us-lawmakers/feed/ Merkel set for landmark speech to US Congress http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-set-for-landmark-speech-to-us-congress/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-set-for-landmark-speech-to-us-congress/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:25:52 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-set-for-landmark-speech-to-us-congress/ German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Brussels on October 30. Merkel is to deliver a major speech to the US Congress, nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, amid tough questions on Afghanistan and climate change.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a major speech to the US Congress Tuesday, nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, amid tough questions on Afghanistan and climate change.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/merkel-set-for-landmark-speech-to-us-congress/feed/ Over 1,000 fish species ‘threatened with extinction’ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-1000-fish-species-threatened-with-extinction/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-1000-fish-species-threatened-with-extinction/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:13:41 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-1000-fish-species-threatened-with-extinction/ A International Union for Conservation of Nature photo of a Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) which once numbered at least 17,000 at the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, and has now joined the list of creatures which are extinct in the wild.(AFP/IUCN/Tim Herman)AFP - More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global “Red List” of endangered species showed Tuesday.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/over-1000-fish-species-threatened-with-extinction/feed/ Obama hosting EU-US summit at White House http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/obama-hosting-eu-us-summit-at-white-house/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/obama-hosting-eu-us-summit-at-white-house/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:06:24 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/obama-hosting-eu-us-summit-at-white-house/ AP - President Barack Obama is hosting a summit with European Union leaders on a range of issues, including climate change, economic management and the NATO operation in Afghanistan.

]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/obama-hosting-eu-us-summit-at-white-house/feed/ GOP senators talk of boycotting climate bill http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/gop-senators-talk-of-boycotting-climate-bill/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/gop-senators-talk-of-boycotting-climate-bill/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:09 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/gop-senators-talk-of-boycotting-climate-bill/ A view of Washington, DC. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to deliver a major speech to the US Congress, nearly two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, amid tough questions on Afghanistan and climate change.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - A threatened Republican boycott of a Senate committee’s consideration of climate legislation is exposing the sharp partisan divide over a Democratic proposal to combat global warming.


]]> http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/gop-senators-talk-of-boycotting-climate-bill/feed/ Flurry of lobbying cash obscures US climate debate http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/flurry-of-lobbying-cash-obscures-us-climate-debate/ http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/flurry-of-lobbying-cash-obscures-us-climate-debate/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:07:00 +0000 admin http://www.recyclingcenters.org/blog/2009/11/03/flurry-of-lobbying-cash-obscures-us-climate-debate/ The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building on October 22 in Washington, DC. When it comes to the debate in the United States over what to do about climate change, cash has clouded the issue.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AFP - When it comes to the debate in the United States over what to do about climate change, cash has clouded the issue.


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